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Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2008 15:47:08 -0700
From: Craig James <craig_james@emolecules.com>
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Gavin M. Roy wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 4:39 PM, Joshua D. Drake <jd@commandprompt.com 
> <mailto:jd@commandprompt.com>> wrote:
> 
>     On Wed, 16 Apr 2008 13:37:32 -0700
>     "Jeffrey Baker" <jwbaker@gmail.com <mailto:jwbaker@gmail.com>> wrote:
> 
>      > >  I can second this. The MSA 70 is a great unit for the money.
>      >
>      > Thank you both.  The MSA 70 looks like an ordinary disk shelf.  What
>      > controllers do you use?  Or, do you just go with a software RAID?
>      >
> 
>     P800, from HP.
> 
> 
> In a Dell box I use a Perc 6/E with a SAS to Mini SAS cable.

There was a fairly long recent thread discussing the Dell Perc 6 controller starting here:

  http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-performance/2008-03/msg00264.php

and one relevant follow-up regarding the MD1000 box:

  http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-performance/2008-03/msg00280.php

(Unfortunately, the Postgres web archive does a terrible job formatting plain-old-text messages, it doesn't seem to know that it should wrap paragraphs, so some of these are pretty hard to read as web pages.)

Craig